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Originally Posted by samhy
Thank you Twowheels (like that name  ) and teh603.
I see now why I'm so confused. The whole thing is confusing!
So to be safe, one should be around 9-11 when in fifth-grade. Still, I wouldn't give The Hunger Games books, with teenagers having to fight to the death, at someone who's 9 (of course, each child is different)  |
I remember reading the Brothers Grimm and Little Red Riding Hood at about 5-7 years old. Think those books couldn't give you nightmares. Most childrens fairy tales were pretty gory (remember Bluebeard) when I was growing up.
I found a lot of fairy tales to be mildly unsettling, but I had friends whose greatest delight was making up scary stories. By grade 5 I had waded through Hamlet and Macbeth and while I didn't understand it all I sure understood the gory parts
A great part of children's literature is classified as horror and seems to be selling well. And many 10 year olds have seen every Saws episode there is and seem to take great glee in the fact.
Cannot say I entirely approve, but do we do the children/young adults a service by wrapping them up in cotton wool.
Helen